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Originally Posted by Avulon
IIRC there was mention many years ago about whether or not a top hose stat (whether in housing or just top pipe) needed a small bypass / bleed hole or not. With no bleed hole and if it's further along the pipe then there's no flow at all to help carry the heat to the stat bulb. The closer the stat is to the block the less of an issue this might be. (just my tuppence).
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I can’t say I disagree, and alluded to this some time ago on a different thread.
However, I couldn’t see any bleed hole on the new first line stat, which now functions as you would expect. Maybe it just doesn’t seal as tightly? Who knows?
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